Passenger-car.



DUNCAN McDONALD, or MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

PASSENGER-CAR.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 9, 1910. Serial No.

Patented May 16, 1911.

To aZZw/zom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUNCAN MCDONALD, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing in Montreal, Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada, have invented certain Improvements in Passenger-Cars, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to construct a car which may be used for train service where two or more cars are coupled together so that'the system known asthe pay-as-you-enter systemmay be used, that is, separate passageways for the ingress and egress of passengers, the passenger paying his fare on entering the car.

The invention is particularly adapted for use in suburban trafiic and on underground and overhead railways, although it can be used in the ordinary train service without departing from the essential features of the inventio In the accompanying drawing :Figure 1, is a diagrammatic plan View of a train of passenger cars illustrating my invention; and Fig. 2, is an enlarged sectional plan viewof the abutting platforms of two cars.

Referring to Fig. 1, A is the forward car of the train; A is the middle car and A is the rear car. These cars are all built exactly alike and are coupled together, forming a three-car train, although it will be understood that any number of cars may be coupled together, as desired.

The bod of the car is divided from the platform by a transverse partition C having, in the present instance, sliding doors a, c which abut against a central post C. The platform B'isof such a width that it can be divided into two passageways by a rail D or other partition, the passage B next to the partition C being the egress passageway and the passageway B being the ingress passageway.

Z), I) are series of ste s, one series being on one side of the plat 01m and the other series being on the other side of the platform and, in the present instance, the steps are divided by permanent rails E, E.

The rail D is shaped so that one portion is at ri ht angles to the bther, as shown. The rai? is adapted to a socket 03 mounted on the center post C and it is also supported by a standard d and is arranged to swingeither to aline with the rail E, as,

shown in Fig. 2, or to aline with the railE on the opposite side of the car, according to the direction of movement of. the train.

At each side of the car at each end are sliding doors, in the present instance, and these doors may be either arranged to slide on the outside of the car, as shown in the drawing, or in the framework of the'car, as desired, according to the design of the car. lVh en the rail D is in the position shown in Fig. 2, then the door F is open so that passengers can enter or leave the car, while the other side of the platform is closed by the door F. I

V In order to allow passengers to mount the platform of onecar and pass into the car adjoining it, I provide passageways in the vestibule casings I, I of the platforms of the cars and in order to close these passageways I provide doors i, z" hinged in the present instance and arranged to be moved ack against the fixed framework'of the vestibule, as clearly shown in the drawings.

The vestibule framework may be of any shape desired, according to the type of the car being used, and the doors may be either divided,as shown, or may be of the sliding type without departing from the essential features of my invention; the doors leading from one car to another being under the control of the conductor, as well as the doors leading into thecars from the platform. The conductor by opening only one entrance on one side of the car and closing the entrance on the opposite side of the car and both of the entrances of theadjoining platform of the car to which the first car is coupled can control the entrance into both cars.

While I have shown in the drawing the egress passageway the same Width as'the ingress passageway, the ingress passageway may be of greater width in some instances than the egress passageway, in order to allow passengers to more quickly board the car. Thus it will be seen that if, for instance, three cars are entrained, as in Fig. 1,

m and a would be the only entrances to the.

cars and these, together with the passageway a; at the forward end of the car, would be the only exit passageways, sothat two conductors and a motorman could handle the train. The passengers would enter through the passageway B on cars A and A and passengers could pass into the rear' of the cars A, A or the forward end of car AVAI A Passengers leaving the car could pass through the several exit passageways 13' without interfering with the passengers entering the car. If the ears are run in the opposite direction to that indicated in the pass either into the body of the car or into the body of the adyolning ear.

drawing, then the doors I are closed and the doors 1 opened; the doors F and F remaining closed. The hand rail 1) is then turned from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown by dotted lines in said figure.

tures of the invention. it may be deslrable to form a wide passageway in the transverse partition and to dispense with the central post, and when a wide passageway is formed then I preferi to discontinue the rail onthe platform some mg. doors for closing the said passageways,

distance from the partition.

1 elaim: l. The combination in a passenger car, o a body portion, a platform, a transverse partition dividing the platform from the body portion and having two doorways! therein, doors for closing, said doorways, a center post separating the two doorways, fixed rails at each side of the platform, a swinging rail extending from the post and adapted to aline with the fixed rail on either i framing extending from one side of the car to the other, and a passageway in said fram- 111g so that a passenger entering a car can 2. The combination in a train of'passenger cars, each car having a platform at each end, eat-h platform separated from the While I have shown the platforms in-l closed by a casing and doors, itwill be understood that railing and gates may be used without departing from the essential fea- In some instances body of the car by a transverse partition having passageways therein separated by a central post, a fixed rail at each side of each platform separating the platform into ingress and egress passageways, a movable rail almmg with the posts and adapted to swing into ahnementwith the fixed rails on either side of the platform, each platform being iuclosed b a vestibule casin a )ase 3 a l sageway 1n the center of each vestibule casand doors for closing the ingress and egress openings to and from the platform.

vIn testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DUNCXN MCDONALD.

Witnesses:

R. L. MACDUFFIE, A. J. Pizzmi. 

